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* CoveredUp: Most people who aren't classical music listeners are most likely to identify ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' with ELP than with Music/ModestMussorgsky. The same ''may'' be true of their version of Music/AaronCopland's "Fanfare for the Common Man".



* CoveredUp: Most people who aren't classical music listeners are most likely to identify ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' with ELP than with Music/ModestMussorgsky. The same ''may'' be true of their version of Music/AaronCopland's "Fanfare for the Common Man".
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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis|Band}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. ELP's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash, aiding their retrospective reappraisal.

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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', ''Music/BrainSaladSurgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis|Band}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. ELP's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash, aiding their retrospective reappraisal.
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True Art Is Incomprehensible is now an in-universe trope as per TRS.


* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Pete Sinfield of ''Music/KingCrimson'' fame contributed lyrics to some of their songs. Much like that band any song he wrote for the trio mostly fell into this trope.
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* MemeticMutation: "The weaver in the web that he made!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A line from "Tarkus" that comes in the "Mass" section that is often yelled as a non sequitur, sometimes randomly typed in [[CapsLock all caps]].[[/labelnote]]

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* MemeticMutation: "The weaver in the web that he made!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A "THE WEAVER IN THE WEB THAT HE MADE!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A line from "Tarkus" that comes in the "Mass" section that is often yelled as a non sequitur, sometimes randomly typed in [[CapsLock all caps]].[[/labelnote]]
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* MemeticMutation: "The weaver in the web that he made!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A line from "Tarkus" that comes in the "Mass" section that is often yelled as a non sequitur, sometimes randomly typed in [[CapsLock all caps]].[[/labelnote]]
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* FaceOfTheBand: All three of them back in the day, naturally as the band is named after them. In the years since, however, Carl Palmer has become the most famous member due to being considered a god among drummers even by people who don't play themselves.
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** From "Karn Evil 9": "Come inside, the show's about to statrt/Guaranteed to blow your head apart". In light of Emerson [[DrivenToSuicide doing just that]], this line has suddenly become much more uncomfortable.

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** From "Karn Evil 9": "Come inside, the show's about to statrt/Guaranteed start/Guaranteed to blow your head apart". In light of Emerson [[DrivenToSuicide doing just that]], this line has suddenly become much more uncomfortable.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: It's called "Karn Evil 9", not "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends". And the section where the mistitling comes from is from the second part of the ''13-minute'' first movement ("impression") of a 29-minute piece. It just happens to lead off the shortest track of the "Karn Evil 9" epic and thus the [[EditedForSyndication easiest to play on the radio.]] It helps that on the original vinyl version parts one and two were split across two sides, so part two lead off side 2. (Not to mention the band rarely played the other 2 2/3 movements during their later years anyway, if at all.) ''Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends'' is the title of their (BSS era) live album, 2 [=CDs=] (or 3 [=LPs=]) long.
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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. ELP's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash, aiding their retrospective reappraisal.

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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} {{Music/Genesis|Band}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. ELP's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash, aiding their retrospective reappraisal.
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** No, ELP did not kill progressive rock.

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** No, Neither ELP did not kill progressive rock. nor ''Love Beach'' were the deciding factors in the mainstream death of ProgressiveRock, but the ill-regarded shift to pop rock, the fact that said pop rock was commonly conflated with {{disco}} just before that genre's reputation went nuclear in America, and its timing with prog's downfall led to a great deal of prog fans pinning the blame on both the band and the album.



** The band only recording ''Love Beach'' to [[ContractualObligationProject satisfy their record contract]].

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** The band only recording ''Love Beach'' to [[ContractualObligationProject satisfy their record contract]]. To this day, there's a great number of people who still treat is as ''the'' GenreKiller for ProgressiveRock (when in reality the genre's decline was owed to multiple socioeconomic factors that the band had no involvement in).



* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. The band's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash, aiding their retrospective reappraisal.

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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. The band's ELP's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash, aiding their retrospective reappraisal.
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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. The band's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash.

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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. The band's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash.backlash, aiding their retrospective reappraisal.
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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} as one of the greats of progressive rock.

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* VindicatedByHistory: Not to the same extreme as Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/PinkFloyd, and {{Music/Queen}} as they still get criticism to this day but more and more people have become appreciative of their work in the recent years. Many retroactive reviews rate their first albums (especially their debut and ''Brain Salad Surgery'', the latter of which is also an example of this as well) very highly and there are some newer fans who put them up there with Music/KingCrimson, {{Music/Yes}}, and {{Music/Genesis}} as one of the greats of progressive rock. The band's massive influence on video game music (with Creator/KojiKondo and Music/NobuoUematsu, among others, citing them as inspirations) also won over a lot of younger listeners who had never witnessed the band's contemporary backlash.
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Many songs by Lake that don't have lyrics by Peter Sinfield, though some of his lyrics, such as "Tarkus", are {{Tear Jerker}}s instead. (Emerson wrote or co-wrote most of the music for "Tarkus", but Lake wrote all of the lyrics.)

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* TastesLikeDiabetes: SweetnessAversion: Many songs by Lake that don't have lyrics by Peter Sinfield, Sinfield suffer from this, though some of his lyrics, such as "Tarkus", are {{Tear Jerker}}s instead. (Emerson wrote or co-wrote most of the music for "Tarkus", but Lake wrote all of the lyrics.)
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* SweetDreamsFuel: Several of Greg Lake's ballads. "From the Beginning", "Watching Over You", "Closer to Believing", and "Footprints in the Snow" jump to mind.

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* SweetDreamsFuel: SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: Several of Greg Lake's ballads. "From the Beginning", "Watching Over You", "Closer to Believing", and "Footprints in the Snow" jump to mind.
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* SweetDreamsFuel: Several of Greg Lake's ballads. "From the Beginning", "Watching Over You", "Closer to Believing", and "Footprints in the Snow" jump to mind.
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** From "Karn Evil 9": "Come inside, the show's about to statrt/Guaranteed to blow your head apart". In light of Emerson [[DrvenToSuicide doing just that]], this line has suddenly become much more uncomfortable.

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** From "Karn Evil 9": "Come inside, the show's about to statrt/Guaranteed to blow your head apart". In light of Emerson [[DrvenToSuicide [[DrivenToSuicide doing just that]], this line has suddenly become much more uncomfortable.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: From "Karn Evil 9": "Come inside, the show's about to start/Guaranteed to blow your head apart..." In light of Keith Emerson's [[DrivenToSuicide doing just that]], this line has suddenly become much more uncomfortable.



** Emerson's suicide makes the end of "Lucky Man" that much more haunting, particularly because he shot himself.

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** Keith Emerson's suicide makes the end of "Lucky Man" that much more haunting, particularly because he shot himself.himself.
** From "Karn Evil 9": "Come inside, the show's about to statrt/Guaranteed to blow your head apart". In light of Emerson [[DrvenToSuicide doing just that]], this line has suddenly become much more uncomfortable.
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Dead Artists Are Better is for fictional examples, Posthumous Popularity Potential is for real-life examples. Moving from the main page.

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* PosthumousPopularityPotential:
** Keith Emerson has gotten a lot of tributes in the press after his death in 2016.
** Lake has gotten this somewhat too, although he was already better liked among the rock press due to his tenure in King Crimson.
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** ''Tarkus'': The self-titled track or "Bitches Crystal"

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** ''Tarkus'': The self-titled title track or "Bitches Crystal"



** ''Trilogy'': "From the Beginning" or the self-titled track

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** ''Trilogy'': "From the Beginning" or the self-titled title track



** ''Love Beach'': The self-titled track
** ''Black Moon'': The self-titled track, "Romeo and Juliet", or "Footprints in the Snow"

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** ''Love Beach'': The self-titled title track
** ''Black Moon'': The self-titled title track, "Romeo and Juliet", or "Footprints in the Snow"

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